On June 4 I’ll be one of the panelists in the Big Urban Data session at the New Cities Summit 2013 conference (June 4–6) in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The theme for the conference is “The Human City”, and the Big Urban Data session [ Read more ]
At the moment the UX Lab is quite busy with a number of activities that are difficult to share any specific information about – mainly because we are in the middle of getting our heads around things. So instead of writing about what we haven’t done yet, I reckon it might be of interest to point at some of the topics we have been thinking about [ Read more ]
As a part of exploring how our research-platform for interconnected objects (see “the Social Web of Things“) could enable new user experience concepts, we looked into what we could do with the log of data generated by the connected gadgets, sensors and services. This data is both used to maintain an updated snapshot of the current state of everything, and also for detecting [ Read more ]
Megacities need to balance social, economic and environmental pressures in a sustainable way, while providing essential services and a good quality of life for the citizens. Realizing this potential requires a holistic, proactive and collaborative approach at all levels of society, from city planners, businesses and citizens, using a city management system to achieve a common vision.
This is where ICT can play an important role. [ Read more ]
As some of you might know, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is less than a week away (February 25–28). This year, Ericsson is presenting a selection of projects from Ericsson Research with the ambition to illustrate our activities within [ Read more ]
In a recent attempt to explain, in a non-technical way, how the network and the integration with web-based services is changing the properties of our products and devices, I told someone that “the network is a habitat”. The network is a fundamental condition for many connected products to function well, so connectivity is almost like a natural resource which a population of products are dependent [ Read more ]
During the last years there has been a growing interest in using technology and ICT services to make people and organizations aware of alternative ways of looking upon their practices, and thereby inspire them to change behavior (a topic that my colleague Anna wrote about in a previous blog post). One of the main themes has been to support a development towards a more [ Read more ]
Here are some reflections after internal discussions that I think can be general enough to share. It has some hooks to a previous post about user experience in corporate research. The thing is that we seem to repeat almost the same discussion at the beginning of every project. It’s about goals and targets. In modern business management practice the necessity of quantifiable [ Read more ]
People need changing behavior for many reasons, i.e. to get a healthier lifestyle or make the world a better place and securing the future of our planet by acting in more sustainable and environmental-friendlier ways. Changes can be small and incremental but yet so important in the long run. Now when the end of the year is approaching it’s a good time to think of behavioral changes and maybe New Year’s [ Read more ]
This blog post is a summary of a 20 minute presentation covering some thoughts on user experience within the context of corporate research given at the 2012 Software Development Day (http://www.lindholmen.se/sv/presentation-2012). The following is an extract of some of the things that I talked about, consisting of the slides as well as (slightly edited) presentation notes. Please note [ Read more ]